John 12:10

Bible in Basic English

Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the chief priests had decided to kill Lazarus also,

King James Version (1611)
But the chiefe Priests consulted, that they might put Lazarus also to death,

King James Version
But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

English Standard Version
So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well,

New American Standard Bible
But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also,

New Century Version
So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus, too.

Amplified Bible
So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

Legacy Standard Bible
But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

Berean Standard Bible
So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,

Contemporary English Version
So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus.

Complete Jewish Bible
The head cohanim then decided to do away with El‘azar too,

Darby Translation
But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also,

Easy-to-Read Version
So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus too.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The hie Priestes therefore consulted, that they might put Lazarus to death also,

George Lamsa Translation
And the high priests were thinking of killing Lazarus also;

Good News Translation
So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus too,

Lexham English Bible
So the chief priests decided that they would kill Lazarus also,

Literal Translation
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus to death also,

American Standard Version
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;

Hebrew Names Version
But the chief Kohanim conspired to also put El'azar to death,

International Standard Version
So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus, too,Luke 16:31;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But the chief priests were minded to slay Loozar also,

Murdock Translation
And the chief priests deliberated about killing even Lazarus:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the hye priestes helde a councell, that they myght put Lazarus to death also,

English Revised Version
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;

World English Bible
But the chief priests conspired to also put Lazarus to death,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But the chief priests consulted, how to kill Lazarus also.

Weymouth's New Testament
The High Priests, however, consulted together to put Lazarus also to death,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But the princis of prestis thouyten to sle Lazarus,

Update Bible Version
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;

Webster's Bible Translation
But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

New English Translation
So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

New King James Version
But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,

New Living Translation
Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too,

New Life Bible
The religious leaders of the Jews talked together about having Lazarus killed also.

New Revised Standard
So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But the High-priests took counsel, that Lazarus also, they might put to death;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:

Revised Standard Version
So the chief priests planned to put Laz'arus also to death,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The hye prestes therfore held a counsell that they myght put Lazarus to deeth also

Young's Literal Translation
and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye hye prestes were aduysed to put Lazarus to death also:

Mace New Testament (1729)
for the chief priests had resolved to put even Lazarus to death;

Simplified Cowboy Version
Lazarus's fame had him on the radar of the church's head honchos. They planned to kill him too.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead. ² So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table. ³ Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume. ⁴ But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said, ⁵ Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor? ⁶ (He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.) ⁷ Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death. ⁸ The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever. ⁹ Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life. ¹⁰ Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 11:47-53, John 11:57, Genesis 4:4-10, Exodus 10:3, Job 15:25, Job 15:26, Job 40:8, Job 40:9, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Daniel 5:21-23, Matthew 2:3-8, Matthew 2:16, Luke 16:31

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:20 - and we 1 Kings 12:26 - Now shall Ecclesiastes 10:13 - beginning Daniel 6:7 - have consulted Matthew 28:12 - General Luke 19:39 - rebuke John 11:1 - Now John 11:53 - put John 12:2 - Lazarus John 15:24 - If Acts 5:17 - the high Acts 12:19 - commanded Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction

Cross-References

Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

Genesis 12:3
To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

Genesis 12:4
So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

Genesis 12:8
And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

Genesis 12:18
Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

Genesis 42:5
And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:1
Now the land was in bitter need of food.

Genesis 47:13
Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

Ruth 1:1
Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the chief priests,.... With the rest of the sanhedrim:

consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; as well as Jesus, and that for no other crime, but because he was raised from the dead by him; which shows what consciences these men had, and how horribly wicked they were; that they stopped at nothing, whereby they might satisfy their malice and envy, and secure their worldly interests and advantages.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That they might put Lazarus also to death - When men are determined not to believe the gospel, there is no end to the crimes to which they are driven. Lazarus was alive, and the evidence of his resurrection was so clear that they could not resist it. They could neither deny it, nor prevent its effect on the people. As it was determined to kill Jesus, so they consulted about the propriety of removing Lazarus first, that the number of his followers might be lessened, and that the death of Jesus might make less commotion. Unbelief stops at no crime. Lazarus was innocent; they could bring no charge against him; but they deliberately plotted murder rather than believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 12:10. Consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death. — As long as he lived they saw an incontestable proof of the Divine power of Christ; therefore they wished to put him to death, because many of the Jews, who came to see him through curiosity, became converts to Christ through his testimony. How blind were these men not to perceive that he who had raised him, after he had been dead four days, could raise him again though they had slain him a thousand times?